In this episode of STEM Tea, AJ chats with Chrystal Starbird and Aileen Fernandez about how institutions can make diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) improvements. They talk about the needs of DEI and how this should be incorporated into the classroom from schools to undergraduate and postgraduate studies and beyond. Chrystal is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC, USA) in the biochemistry and biophysics department and is a structural biologist studying cell surface receptors. Aileen is a postdoc at Yale School of Medicine (CT, USA) in the department of pathology and studies translational oncology and is passionate about cancer health disparities. Contents:Introduction 00:00 – 05:55Future career goals 05:55 – 11:08What is DEI to you? 11:08 – 16:35How well do you think academia and industry are doing with integrating real DEI change? 16:35 – 23:31What can leaders focus on to create authentic DEI change at their institution? 23:31 – 32:29How do we monitor an institution’s performance towards DEI? 32:29 – 48:18What do you think the future of DEI will look like? 48:18 – 50:23Discussion about the importance of mentoring in DEI DEI 50:23 – 55:50Should proof of DEI be required for grant mechanisms? 55:50 – 1:04:24What’s the tea? 1:04:24 – 01:12:25 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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